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works of Townend Glover, who, in 1855, wrote of "the grain moth 
{Tinea '!)." This account was published in the Patent Office Report for 
1854 (pp. 65-66), and was accompanied by plate illustrations of the 
insect in its several stages. In the following year (1. c. 1855, p. 00) 
the same writer has an account of "the corn-worm (Heliotkes '. ." also 
illustrated and identified as the same species treated in the 1854 
report. Later, in Manuscript Notes from my Journal or Entomological 
Index, which appeared in 1877, the same writer refers to this species 
as Tinea granella. The moth in question is described as occurring in 
the cornfields of the South, and as attacking corn in the husk " some- 
what in the manner of the Angoumois moth." It is stated also that the 
larva 1 " appear to attack corn out of the field as well as in,"' and that 
the insect lives in injured cotton bolls. 
Through the kindness of Mr. E. A. Schwarz, who sent me from Texas 
specimens of the larvae of this moth, both in cotton bolls and in corn 
from the held, I have been able to rear and identify the species. It 
proves to be Batrachedra rileyi Wals., which was described from speci- 
mens bred from cotton bolls, but it has not, so far as I am aware, 
been identified hitherto with the corn plant. This moth belongs to a 
different family of Tineina than either Sitotroga or Tinea, and it should 
be added that it does not in truth greatly resemble these moths either 
in appearance or in habits. It may be easily distinguished from these 
two genera by its narrower fore-wings, linear hind-wings, and annulated 
antennae. 
RECENT REPORTS OF TINEA GRANELLA. 
In subsequent years Messrs. Packard, French, Fernald. and other 
entomologists mentioned T. granella among insects injurious to stored 
grain in this country, but without furnishing localities or original 
observations. 
In the American Elevator and Grain Trade for March 15, 1896, Mr. 
W. G. Johnson states that he found this moth "in stored wheat from 
California, and on one occasion bred the adult from larva' taken from 
a sack of corn meal purchased at a local grocery store at San Jose." 
At the present writing 1 have not seen specimens of The moth above 
reported, though Mr. Johnson has endeavored to procure them for me. 
In response to a circular letter recently sent out by Dr. Howard to 
economic entomologists and others in regard to the distribution and 
injuriousness of certain noxious species of insects in the United Stales, 
word was received from seven station entomologists, representing as 
many States, that this species occurred in each of these several States. 
On the occasion of a visit to the Capital by one o[' these gentlemen 
the writer found occasion to inquire as to the actual facts that had led 
to the reported occurrence of the insect in his State, pointing out by 
specimens the character of the work of Plodia intcrpunctdla, with the 
result that our visitor frankly avowed that the species had been 
identified by the nature of its damage to the grain — that is. by the 
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